The interest in the narrative and ideological parameters of travel writing,1 which has been an important feature of the Western European and North American academic contexts over the last fifteen years or so, is undoubtedly a reflection of the unique position of the genre as an area thematising and problematising cultural difference and otherness and as a meeting point of varying discourses of gender, race/ethnicity, class, power, domination and counter-domination. Travel narratives have played a key role in current theoretical debates in postcolonial studies, feminism, cultural studies and comparative literature. To my mind, a considerable number of the critical texts that they have engendered in those fields, appear to privilege a particular analytical strategy focusing on the interpretation of what Laura E. Ciolkowski has termed ‘gender-coded visual power’ (1998: 343). This power operates through the travelling subject’s gaze, which is intent upon the construction of the relatively stationary object(s) of his/her observation. By persistently privileging the analysis of the gaze critics have tended to ignore and even erase other aspects of the complex processes of mediation and negotiation in which travellers and ‘travellees’ are involved.
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Meals in Foreign Parts
Food in Writing by Nineteenth-Century British Travellers to the Balkans
Ludmilla Kostova
Old Model, New Parts
Matt Thomas
Fast & Furious 6, United States, 2013, Universal Pictures, directed by Justin Lin, written by Chris Morgan, starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriquez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Sung Kang, Gal Gadot, Luke Evans, Gina Carano, and John Ortiz.
“Orchestral Parts” in a Symphony of Motion
The Aesthetics of Coaching in the Golden Age of Horse and Carriage
Markus Poetzsch
Drawing on the work of Alfred de Vigny and Thomas De Quincey, this article examines the aesthetic appeal of coaching, a ubiquitous but little theorized mode of transport, in the golden age of horse and carriage (c. 1805–1825). The roots of Vigny's nostalgia for the shepherd's caravan and De Quincey's thrill ride on the mail-coach lie in the sympathetic connections that coaching, unlike train travel, establishes between living beings. These connections or “inter-agencies” serve in vital ways to rupture the solipsism and self-assurance of the solitary traveler, revealing his limited role in the vast plexus of nineteenth-century transport and motion.
Parry, Bronwyn, Beth Greenhough, Tim Brown and Isabel Dyck (eds.) 2015. Bodies across borders: the global circulation of body parts, medical tourists and professionals. Farnham/Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing. 230 pp. Hb.: £65.00. ISBN: 9781409457176.
Eva‐Maria Knoll
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Nov 2018
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 597–598 (1 total)
Reindeer-Herding Lexicon as System-Structure Organization in the Language of the Alutor Koryaks
Anatoly Sorokin
This article examines the reindeer-herding lexicon in the language of the Alutor Koryaks, including two hypero-hyponymic groups: (1) names of herds and parts of herds and (2) names of reindeer harnesses and their parts. My analysis focuses on
The Glorious Excess of Peace in Marsilius of Padua's Defensor Pacis
Richard A. Lee Jr.
there is a peculiar logic – a logic of excess and condition – to Marsilius’ understanding of peace as a kind of relation of the parts to the whole (Section 4). Before investigating this logic, I will first use Marsilius’ citation of the Gospel of Luke
Boyhood, Sport, and the Mild Brutalization of the Body
Jeff Hearn
. Different parts of the gendered body figure as the focuses of attention and activity, such as hands and arms; even when the whole body is employed. In some sports, boys could appear to become boys more through training certain parts of the body, for example
Osuokhai, The Yakut Circle Dance
Angelina Lukina
Translator : Tatiana Argounova-Low
emphasized the way up, to the deities. This part was also associated with the transformed mental state. The dance had strong totemic relevance and in many parts it resembled movements of horses, birds, other animals, and mythological creatures. Performance
Editorial Introduction
The Cases of Japan, Australia, and the United States
Harry G. J. Nijhuis and Laurent J.G. van der Maesen
ontological and epistemological sense—precisely their nature is, and how they relate to the studies in the other parts of this thematic issue. In the case of Japan, the pandemic increased frictions and contradictions. The issues discussed are (1) the
In The International Journal of Social Quality
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2021
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 259–261 (3 total)
Spanish Immigrants in Basque Social Science Textbooks from the Late Franco Era to the Transition to Democracy
Ander Delgado
The aim of this article is to analyze the portrayal of migrants from other parts of Spain in the Basque social science textbooks published during the final years of Francoism and the beginning of the transition to democracy over the course of the
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 100–117 (18 total)